Keynote
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Build stunning presentations

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Description

Easily create gorgeous presentations with Keynote, featuring powerful yet easy-to-use tools and dazzling effects that will make you a very hard act to follow.

The Theme Chooser lets you skim through an impressive collection of 30 new and updated Apple-designed themes. Once you’ve chosen the perfect canvas for your presentation, simply replace the placeholder text and graphics with your own words and images. Easy-to-use tools let you add tables, charts, shapes, photos, and videos to slides—and bring it all to life with cinematic animations and transitions that look as though they were created by your own special effects team. Use Keynote Live to present a slideshow that viewers can follow from their Mac, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and from iCloud.com.

With iCloud built in, your presentations are kept up to date across all your devices. And with real-time collaboration, your team will be able to work together at the same time on a Mac, iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch — even on a PC using iWork for iCloud.

With Keynote, you have all the tools you need to make an amazing presentation quickly and easily.

Collaborate with others at the same time• With real-time collaboration, your whole team can work together on a presentation at the same time• Collaboration is built right in to Keynote on the Mac, iPad, iPhone and iPod touch• PC users can collaborate too, using Keynote for iCloud• Share your document publicly or with specific people• Easily see who’s currently in the presentation with you• View other people’s cursors to follow their edits• Available on presentations stored in iCloud or in Box

Get started quickly• Choose from 30 Apple-designed themes to give your presentations a beautiful start• Use the slide navigator to quickly skim through your presentation, add new slides, and reorder slides• Engage your audience with interactive charts and chart animations• See live on-canvas previews as you animate your slides• Use gorgeous preset styles to make your text, tables, shapes, and images look beautiful• Enhance your presentations with a library of over 700 editable shapes• Quickly open password-protected presentations using Touch ID on supported Macs

Easy-to-use graphics tools• Edit down to the pixel with rulers and alignment guides• Simplified toolbar gives you quick access to shapes, media, tables, charts, and sharing options• Use donut charts to visualize data in an engaging new way• Add an interactive image gallery to view a collection of photos• Use Instant Alpha to easily remove image backgrounds• Free-form curves, shapes, and masks

Present to your audience• Customizable presenter display with support for up to six displays• Keynote Live lets you present a slideshow that viewers can follow from their Mac, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and from iCloud.com• Create self-running, interactive shows for kiosks and displays• Control your slideshow from iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, or iPod touch with Keynote for iOS

iCloud• Turn on iCloud so you can access and edit your presentations from your Mac, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and iCloud.com• Use Keynote for iCloud to access and edit your presentations from a Mac or PC browser

Some features may require Internet access; additional fees and terms may apply.Keynote does not include support for some Chinese, Japanese, or Korean (CJK) text input features such as vertical text.

What’s New

Version History

8.3

Nov 7, 2018

This update contains stability and performance improvements.

8.2

Sep 17, 2018

• Support for Dark Mode gives Keynote a dramatic dark look. Toolbars and menus recede into the background so you can focus on your content. Requires macOS Mojave.• Support for Continuity Camera allows you to take a photo or scan a document with your iPhone and have it automatically appear in your presentation on your Mac. Requires macOS Mojave and iOS 12.• Easily record, edit, and play audio right on a slide.• Enhance your presentations with a variety of new editable shapes.• Performance and stability improvements.

8.1

Jun 14, 2018

• Add mathematical equations using LaTeX or MathML notation.• Give charts a new look with rounded corners on columns and bars.• Enhance your documents with a variety of new editable shapes.• Improved compatibility with Microsoft PowerPoint.• Improved support for Arabic and Hebrew.

8.0.1

May 3, 2018

This update contains stability and performance improvements.

8.0

Mar 27, 2018

• Collaborate in real time on presentations stored in Box. Requires macOS High Sierra.• Use donut charts to visualize data in an engaging new way.• Add an interactive image gallery to view a collection of photos.• Enhance presentations with a variety of new editable shapes.• Additional options for reducing the file size of presentations.

7.3.1

Nov 9, 2017

This update contains stability and performance improvements.

7.3

Sep 19, 2017

• New ability to filter the object list by typing object names• Performance and stability improvements

7.2

Jun 13, 2017

• Enhance your presentations using a library of over 500 professionally drawn shapes• Reply to comments and join threaded conversations• New auto-correction and text replacement options save time while typing• Scroll anywhere with new pan and zoom options• Edit presenter notes while displaying slides in Light Table view• Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic languages• The Stock and Currency functions now return data from the previous market day’s close.

7.1.1

Apr 25, 2017

This update contains stability and performance improvements.

7.1

Mar 27, 2017

• New Object List makes it easy to select, edit, and organize objects even on complex slides• New option to display presenter notes on black background makes them easier to read while presenting in low-light settings• Easily replace fonts throughout an entire presentation• New leader lines make pie charts easier to read• Quickly open password-protected presentations using Touch ID on the new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar• New stock and currency functions provide up-to-date securities data in tables• Post interactive presentations on Medium, WordPress, and other websites• Import Keynote 1.0 presentations• Customize dates, times, and currencies for your language or region

7.0.5

Oct 27, 2016

• Support for Touch Bar on the new MacBook Pro lets you easily edit text, shapes, tables and charts• Control Slideshow playback using Touch Bar on the new MacBook Pro • Stability and performance improvements

7.0

Sep 20, 2016

• Real-time collaboration (feature in beta)- Edit a presentation with others at the same time in Keynote on Mac, iPad, iPhone, and iCloud.com- Share your presentation publicly or with specific people- See who else is in a presentation- See participants’ cursors as they’re editing

• Keynote Live lets you present a slideshow that viewers can follow from their Mac, iPad, iPhone, and from iCloud.com• Open and edit Keynote ’05 presentations• Use tabs to work with multiple presentations in one window• Wide color gamut image support

Other recent improvements:• Multitask while editing using new Split View in El Capitan• Open Keynote ’08 and ’06 presentations• Shared Keynote presentations can now be previewed on iOS and Android browsers• Force click images and get haptic feedback as you edit using Force Touch trackpad• New build animation: Line Draw• New Apple-designed themes: Modern Type, Exhibition, Drafting• Easily access recently used fonts in the Fonts menu• Enhanced support for OpenType font features like small caps, contextual fractions, alternate glyphs, and more• View Collections, Moments, Favorites, and Shared Albums from Photos in the Media Browser• Add reference lines to charts• Create table, chart, and shape styles from an image• Easily edit presenter notes with VoiceOver• VoiceOver can now read presenter notes during slideshows• Edit chart data and chart elements with VoiceOver• Add and review comments with VoiceOver• Full bidirectional support for Arabic and Hebrew

6.6

Oct 15, 2015

• Multitask while editing using new Split View in El Capitan• Open Keynote ’08 and ’06 presentations• Shared Keynote presentations can now be previewed on iOS and Android browsers• Force click images and get haptic feedback as you edit using Force Touch trackpad• New build animation: Line Draw• New Apple-designed themes: Modern Type, Exhibition, Drafting• Easily access recently used fonts in the Fonts menu• Enhanced support for OpenType font features like small caps, contextual fractions, alternative glyphs and more• View Collections, Moments, Favorites and Shared Albums from Photos in the Media Browser• Add reference lines to charts• Create table, chart and shape styles from an image• Easily edit presenter notes with VoiceOver• VoiceOver can now read presenter notes during slideshows• Edit chart data and chart elements with VoiceOver• Add and review comments with VoiceOver• Full bidirectional support for Arabic and Hebrew• Additional AppleScript options for PDF export• Additional AppleScript options for PowerPoint export• Improved PowerPoint compatibility for charts, text overflows, non-rectangular masks, animation mapping, and theme import and export• Improved PowerPoint export

6.0

Oct 22, 2013

• Stunning new user interface• Brand-new Apple-designed themes• Simplified toolbar gives you quick access to shapes, media, tables, charts, and sharing options• New Format Panel automatically updates based on selection• New and updated cinematic transitions and animations• Updated Magic Move animations• New Emphasis build animations• Centered canvas for greater layout control• Use gorgeous preset styles to make your text, tables, shapes, and images look beautiful• Animate data with new interactive column, bar, scatter, and bubble charts• Use new 2D bubble charts• Quickly and easily share a link to your work via Mail, Messages, Twitter or Facebook• Anyone with the link will always have access to the latest version of the presentation and can edit it with you at iCloud.com with Keynote for iCloud beta• New unified file format across the Mac, iOS, and the web makes presentations work seamlessly everywhere• Turn on Coaching Tips for guided in-app help

5.3

Dec 4, 2012

Keynote 5.3 adds support for Keynote for iOS 1.7.

5.2

Jul 25, 2012

This update includes the features listed below. To use these features, update your Mac to OS X Mountain Lion.

• iCloud: Store presentations in iCloud and keep them automatically up to date across your Mac, iPad*, iPhone*, iPod touch*, and the web. Changes made to a presentation on one device automatically appear on all your other devices. • Dictation: Speak words, numbers, or sentences and watch them appear in your presentation.

Keynote 5.2 is also enhanced to take advantage of the Retina display on the new MacBook Pro so presentations appear sharper and more vibrant.

*Requires Keynote 1.6.1 or later installed on iOS device.

Nov 7, 2018

Version 8.3

This update contains stability and performance improvements.

Ratings and Reviews

3.6 out of 5

492 Ratings

492 Ratings

CalebTalbot
,03/31/2018

Clean, simple, intuitive. (ONE minor complaint, though…)

I don’t use Keynote often, simply because I don’t frequently have a use for it, but whenever I do use it I am amazed by its beauty and ease of use. (Although I’m going to describe my one complaint, there are many things I love about Keynote and I would recommend it to everyone.)

My ONLY complaint (so far) is that it cannot automatically change the color of text once you've clicked on it (in the case of linking something to a word). For some context: I was making a Jeopardy game using Keynote, and it went so smoothly, but then I discovered that once you click on “Category A” for “$100” and come back to the table there is no way to make the “$100” a different color, so there is no way to know which ones you have already clicked on.

This isn’t a huge deal, but I would like for Keynote to be able to do what PowerPoint can (simply because I’m an Apple fan). And I understand there are differences between the two, but it would be a nice feature for Apple to add. With that said, I LOVE Keynote and am not switching to PowerPoint for this minor inconvenience, it has just been a known “issue” for over a decade now that I would like to bring some attention to, haha.

CalebTalbot
,03/31/2018

Clean, simple, intuitive. (ONE minor complaint, though…)

I don’t use Keynote often, simply because I don’t frequently have a use for it, but whenever I do use it I am amazed by its beauty and ease of use. (Although I’m going to describe my one complaint, there are many things I love about Keynote and I would recommend it to everyone.)

My ONLY complaint (so far) is that it cannot automatically change the color of text once you've clicked on it (in the case of linking something to a word). For some context: I was making a Jeopardy game using Keynote, and it went so smoothly, but then I discovered that once you click on “Category A” for “$100” and come back to the table there is no way to make the “$100” a different color, so there is no way to know which ones you have already clicked on.

This isn’t a huge deal, but I would like for Keynote to be able to do what PowerPoint can (simply because I’m an Apple fan). And I understand there are differences between the two, but it would be a nice feature for Apple to add. With that said, I LOVE Keynote and am not switching to PowerPoint for this minor inconvenience, it has just been a known “issue” for over a decade now that I would like to bring some attention to, haha.

Useful in my research
,05/17/2018

Essential in presenting scientific research with one minor defect

I have recently started using Keynote for my presentations as a substitute for Latex and Powerpoint. While the output in Keynote looks much better compared to the previously mentioned softwares, I have been suffering from a defect which might be happening to other users too. Its regarding dragging objects around on a slide. Lets say I write an equation using Latexit or say copy and paste an image from my computer, it sometimes get “stuck” and won’t move around when selected and dragged around. It will eventually but I have no clue as to the origin of the problem. This is time consuming and annoying while editing presentations at the last minute or in general. I haven’t found a good solution to this problem online. The typical solution suggested is to use coordinates which works but sometimes and more often you would like to place the object according to your liking which is difficult to judge from the coordinates. Compared to Keynote, it is seamless in Powerpoint to drag and drog items. Barring this issue, Keynote is a wonderful software, easy to start with and highly useful in presenting your research anywhere.

Useful in my research
,05/17/2018

Essential in presenting scientific research with one minor defect

I have recently started using Keynote for my presentations as a substitute for Latex and Powerpoint. While the output in Keynote looks much better compared to the previously mentioned softwares, I have been suffering from a defect which might be happening to other users too. Its regarding dragging objects around on a slide. Lets say I write an equation using Latexit or say copy and paste an image from my computer, it sometimes get “stuck” and won’t move around when selected and dragged around. It will eventually but I have no clue as to the origin of the problem. This is time consuming and annoying while editing presentations at the last minute or in general. I haven’t found a good solution to this problem online. The typical solution suggested is to use coordinates which works but sometimes and more often you would like to place the object according to your liking which is difficult to judge from the coordinates. Compared to Keynote, it is seamless in Powerpoint to drag and drog items. Barring this issue, Keynote is a wonderful software, easy to start with and highly useful in presenting your research anywhere.

Supermagnetman
,09/17/2017

Lots to like about KeyNote but...

One thing that is extremely annoying is that this app is missing the “Save AS” feature. Apparently the people writing this app are not familiar with this concept. I use keynote every week to do my Sunday School lesson for my class. It has a lot of things that I like but I always open the previous week’s lesson and update everything and then I want to Save As - as I have been able to do in every other app on Macs since the original Word and Excel apps from the 1980s. The writers of this app think that I should think of it differently and first open it, then remember to “duplicate” it and then Rename it. That is a far less intuitive way to work and does not make sense - at all. Maybe someone somewhere in Apple will read this and have an “Opps” monent and restore this functionality.

Supermagnetman
,09/17/2017

Lots to like about KeyNote but...

One thing that is extremely annoying is that this app is missing the “Save AS” feature. Apparently the people writing this app are not familiar with this concept. I use keynote every week to do my Sunday School lesson for my class. It has a lot of things that I like but I always open the previous week’s lesson and update everything and then I want to Save As - as I have been able to do in every other app on Macs since the original Word and Excel apps from the 1980s. The writers of this app think that I should think of it differently and first open it, then remember to “duplicate” it and then Rename it. That is a far less intuitive way to work and does not make sense - at all. Maybe someone somewhere in Apple will read this and have an “Opps” monent and restore this functionality.